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...Noonan’s no stranger to the skies. He calls his lifelong relationship with flying a “love affair.” The six-foot tall, blond-haired, all-American-looking Noonan’s closest brush with aerial death so far took place in his uncle??s small plane. “The plane was too high up and so the propellers froze,” he recalls. “Thick ice covered the wind shield. Everybody in the plane started screaming. That was my scariest moment...
...child I thought that light had form and size, the flower-like shapes of candleflames, like unopened magnolias, the luminous polygons in my uncle??s tungsten bulbs. It was only when Uncle Abe showed me his spinthariscope and I saw the individual sparkles in this that I started to realize that light, all light, came from atoms or molecules which had first been excited and then, returning to their ground state, relinquished their excess energy as visible radiation...
Rachel’s insistence on unearthing her grand-uncle??s grave, which had been concealed under a tree in the Muslim cemetery, has dire consequences—especially since this grand-uncle was also an excommunicated infidel, an “unbeliever.” Koya sees Rachel as a disobedient wench far too bold for her own good and insists that the gravestone be smashed and scattered to the four winds...
...given Saturday, Drew Magliozzi, a freshman in Straus, doesn’t care to get up very early. But while Drew is slumbering away, over two million Americans tune into his father and uncle??s nationally syndicated public radio talk show-Car Talk...